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Thought experiment: tomorrow we delete the countries of Africa. Literally gone, the continent ceases to exist. Maybe we keep SA and the northern bits like Tuni
by esotericn 7y ago
Thought experiment: tomorrow we delete the countries of Africa. Literally gone, the continent ceases to exist.
Maybe we keep SA and the northern bits like Tunisia etc.
Global GDP probably declines less than 10%, right?
You can't reduce everything to money in these terms.
- chr1 7y agoThat's a very important point, and i should have mentioned it in my comment. In 100 years the poor countries will be much richer, and we have opportunity to help improve their situation sooner which in turn would help everyone by making markets larger and increasing the number of people working on science. In some cases helping this countries directly will have more effect than wasting money on biofuel subsidies. Bjørn Lomborg have many interesting talks/writings about this issue.